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October 7, 2013 - 3 years-ago today, the Boston Globe published a front page article announcing the formation of the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines.
The Pioneer Award supports individual scientists of "exceptional creativity, who propose pioneering and transforming approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research."
Deadline abstract submission on October 28, 2016 - AAAI Symposium on Science of Intelligence: Computational Principles of Natural and Artificial Intelligence Organized by the Center for Brains Minds and Machines Dates: 27-29 March 2017 Place: Stanford U.
Tomaso A. Poggio and Fabio Anselmi released a new book in the field of Computational Neuroscience published through The MIT Press last week.
MIT News | Joshua Sariñana | August 30, 2016
The paper briefly reviews several recent results on hierarchical architectures for learning from examples, that may formally explain the conditions under which Deep Convolutional Neural Networks perform much better in function approximation problems ...
The human infant brain is the only known machine able to master a natural language and develop explicit, symbolic, and communicable systems of knowledge that deliver rich representations of the external world. ...
Resource could yield linguistic insights, practical applications for non-native English speakers. Article by Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office, July 29, 2016.
We introduce the Treebank of Learner English (TLE), the first publicly available syntactic treebank for English as a Second Language (ESL). The TLE provides manually annotated POS tags and Universal Dependency (UD) trees for 5,124 sentences ...
Watch Demis Hassabis's CBMM Special Seminar talk " Towards General Artificial Intelligence"recorded on April 20, 2016, in MIT Seminar Room #54-100.
Understanding language goes hand in hand with the ability to integrate complex contextual information obtained via perception. In this work, we present a novel task for grounded language understanding: disambiguating a sentence given a visual scene which
“If we imagine the brain as a computer, optogenetics is a key that allows us to send extremely precise commands. It is a tool whereby we can manipulate the brain with exquisite precision.” - Ed Boyden
"The goal of this special issue was to explore some of the mathematical ideas and problems at the heart of deep learning. ..."
This work examines the impact of crosslinguistic transfer on grammatical errors in English as Second Language (ESL) texts.